1826 in music

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This article is about music-related events in 1826.

Events

"The Old Oaken Bucket" w. Samuel Woodworth m. George F. Kiallmark. Words written in 1817.

Ludwig van Beethoven
- String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131
- String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135
Muzio Clementi – Complete Gradus ad Parnassum (100 pieces) appears for the first time, simultaneously in Paris, Leipzig and London on October 31.
Johannes Frederik Frøhlich – Concertino for violin and orchestra in D major
Franz Liszt – Initial version of the Étude en douze exercices
Felix Mendelssohn – Overture "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in E major for orchestra, Op. 21
Giovanni Morandi – Raccolta di Suonate pei grand' Organi Moderni, Op. 21
Niccolò Paganini – Violin Concerto No. 2
Ferdinand Ries
- Piano Concerto No.8, Op.151
- Variationen über eine portugiesische Hymne für Pianoforte und Flöte in A major, Op. 152
- 3 Flute Quartets, WoO 35, No. 1 in D minor
Franz Schubert

January 18 – Joseph-Henri Altès, composer (died 1895)
February 1 – Marie Carandini, opera singer (d. 1894)
February 2 – Louisa Langhans-Japha, composer (died 1910)
February 16 – Franz von Holstein, composer
March 6 – Marietta Alboni, operatic contralto (d. 1894)
March 14 – William Fisk Sherwin, composer
March 23 – Léon Minkus, composer (d. 1917)
April 7 – Johann Hermann Berens, composer (d. 1880)
April 28 – Alexander Stadtfeld, composer
June 1
- Carl Bechstein, piano-maker (d. 1900)
- Hermann Zopff, composer
July 4 – Stephen Foster, songwriter (d. 1864)
July 8 – Friedrich Chrysander, music historian (d. 1901)
July 22 – Julius Stockhausen, singer and music teacher (d. 1906)
August 13 – William Thomas Best, organist (d. 1897)
August 28 – Walter Cecil Macfarren, pianist and composer
October 13 – Johanna Jachmann-Wagner, operatic mezzo-soprano (d. 1894)
October 14 – Georges Mathias, composer and pianist (d. 1910)
October 16 – Piotr Studzinski, composer
- Mathilda Ebeling, Swedish soprano (died 1851)
October 22 – Guglielmo Quarenghi, cellist and composer (d. 1882)
December 21 – Ernst Pauer, composer (d. 1905)
December 24 – Ignacy Krzyżanowski, Polish composer (d. 1905)
date unknown – Edward Mack, songwriter (d. 1882)

January 17 – Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, composer (b. 1806)
February 11 – Charles Benjamin Incledon, singer (b. 1763)
March 14 – Julie Alix de la Fay, ballerina (b. 1748)
March 29 – Johann Heinrich Voss, lyricist (born 1751)
April 3 – Reginald Heber, hymn-writing bishop (b. 1783)
April 13 – Franz Danzi, cellist, conductor and composer (b. 1763)
May 6 – Sophie Hagman, ballerina (b. 1758)^[1]
May 24 – Frederic Ernest Fesca, violinist and composer (b. 1789)
May 27 – Carl David Stegmann, singer, harpsichordist, conductor and composer (b. 1751)
June 5 – Carl Maria von Weber, composer (b. 1786)
July 7 – Friedrich Ludwig Dulon, flautist and composer (b. 1768)
July 11 – Carl Bernhard Wessely, composer
August 30 – Theodor Zwetler, composer
September 28 – Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel, inventor of the first working metronome (b. 1780)
October 9 – Michael Kelly, actor, singer and composer (b. 1762)
November 17 – Caroline Frederikke Müller, operatic mezzo-soprano (b. 1755)
December 3 – Elizabeth Sandunova, soprano
December 10 – Benedikt Emanuel Schack, singer and composer (b. 1758)